in reply to Having our anonymous cake and eating it too

Anonymous to who? Surely, the monks could put a cookie in your computer to identify whover is connecting? The monks can also tell by IP address and daily patterns, who Anonymous Monk actually is. I'm sure the NSA could track back any anonymous post to whatever computer sent it.

The only real value to Anonymous Monk is that it offers some privacy to people who can't login officially, maybe because they are currently sitting in a cubicle, and it is against company policy to do any outside work.

Another use, is to prevent flare ups of old grudges. You can respond without others knowing it was you. :-)

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Re^2: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 23, 2014 at 14:04 UTC
    > maybe because they are currently sitting in a cubicle, and it is against company policy to do any outside work.

    There are different shades of grey... Many known users are anonymous here ( or should I say many named users are unknown? ;)

    So taking a fake identity is no big problem if $$$ doesn't block the IP.

    Its true that some regular Anonymous Monks are annoying cause they can't be easily (mentally) filtered out by name...but it can't be helped since PM w/o AM is not PM anymore.

    The answer is easy...people have to learn to judge posts by content !!!

    And to stop upvoting replies which are only feeding annoying posters.

    Btw: ignoring AM is simply done with little CSS!

    :)

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      > judge posts by content

      Upvoted because that's exactly the point. It's very simple.

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